Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Active file munged
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.225408.12185@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec1.012829.7501@kfw.COM>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 90 22:54:08 GMT

In article <1990Dec1.012829.7501@kfw.COM> dan@kfw.com (Dan Mick) writes:
>We're running C News, and last night my active file got hosed due to an 
>unrecoverable disk error (sigh).  
>
>What should I have done to repair it? 
>
>What I did was 
>
>cp active.old active
>recovact active
>upact 

This is about the best you can do.  It's an inherently difficult situation.

(Actually, I hadn't thought of using active.old for disaster recovery --
it's left around as sort of a side effect of the paranoia of the code in
upact/updatemin -- but that's a sensible use for it.)

(Dept. Of Real Trivia:  recovact does not take an argument.)
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
